Advertising-vehicle.



ADVERTISING VEHICLE.

(Application led June 1, 1900.) (No Model.)

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LUDWIG NEUMAYER, OF MERSEBURG, GERMANY.

AIDVERTISING-VEl-HCLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 676,821, dated June 18,1901i.

Application led June 1,1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUDWIG NEUMAYER, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, and a resident of Merseburg, Germany, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Advertising-Vehicles with MovableAdvertisements, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is to provide an advertising-vehiclewith chan gin g or movable advertisements arranged on three sides of thevehicle and slowly unrolled from one cylinder and rolled upon another',the movements of the advertisement being obtained from the axle of thevehicle through the agency of suitable transmission devices and a devicefor regulating the intermittent movement of the advertisements.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a portion of my invention, Figurel is a vertical section of the improved advertising-vehicle, and Fig. 2is a horizontal section of sam e.

The side and back walls of the advertising-vehicle are formed of platesa, made of glass or other-transparent material. Near each one of theseglass walls are journaled an upper and a lower rollerv c d, upon whichis rolled a long band h, provided with advertisements, and the portionof which stretched between the rollers can be seen through the glassplates a., The rollers d and the rollers o are geared together by meansof bevel gear-wheels, as shown, so that they rotate in unison. Themechanism is actuated by the axle of the vehicle through the agency of achain w, actuating a shaft g, carrying a belt-pulley h, mechanicallyconnected by means of a belt g with a loose pulley t and with akeyedpulley 7n, mounted upon a shaft c, which may be moved longitudinally bymeans of a lever Z. The ends of said shaft e are provided with bevelgear-wheels m n, adapted to mesh successively as follows: m with agear-wheel on rollers CZ and n with a gear-wheel keyed on a verticalshaft geared with the upper rollers c.

The transmission-shaft g is provided with a worm f, meshing with a wormgear-wheel rotating on a stud secured to the bottom of the vehicle, saidwheel o being provided with a projecting pin p, adapted to engage afterlSerial No. 18,752. (No model.)

each revolution of the wheel an arm q, connected with a rod s, wherebythe latter is moved laterally to a certain distance after eachrevolution of the wheel o. The rod s is provided at one end with a fork,through the branches of which works the driving-belt g', whereby thelatter is brought from the loose pulley 2' upon the fixed pulley 7c,when. the rod s is moved as stated,so that the movements of the upper orof the lower rollers move the advertising-bands forwardly. After the pinp is released from the arm q the forked end of rod s is brought back toits initial position by the action of a spring r, whereby thedriving-belt is again brought upon the loose pulley, whereupon theadver- Jrising-band is stopped. The worm gearwheel o is provided on itsunder side with a projecting pin u, engaging at each revolution theperiphery of a disk t, to move the latter forward by one pin or tooth.This disk is provided with as many pins t' as there are advertisementson the band, and the last pin is formed so that it actuates an alarm(not shown in the drawings) whereby the carman is notified to reversethe lever Z, whereby the shaft c is moved longitudinally and whereby theadvertising-baud is actuated in an opposite direction.

The device may be modilied by employing two vertical rollers and movingthe advertising-band behind the three transparentwalls of the vehicle.

The vehicle itself may be moved in any desired way, either by horses,velocipede, or autocar, or said vehicle may be constructed in the formof a motor-car.

Having fully described my invention, what l claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

l. ln an advertising-vehicle the combination with the walls of thevehicle made of suitable transparent material, a series of rollersjournaled at the upper ends of said transparent Walls, another series ofrollers journaled at the lower ends of the transparent walls, andadvertising bands, extending around the pairs of upper and lowerrollers; of bevel gear-wheels on the ends of the roller- IOC shafts andmeshing with each other; a longibottom of the vehicle: a toothed Wheelon each end of said shaft, and adapted to mesh one at a time with one ofthe gear-wheels on the lower-roller ends; a loose pulley and a fixedpulley on said shaft, and suitable connections between the latter andthe axle of the vehicle, substantially as set forth.

2. In an advertising-vehicle the combination with the wallsl of thevehicle made of suitable transparent material, a series of rollersjournaled at the upper ends of said transparent Walls, another series ofrollers journaled at the lower ends vof the transparent walls, andadvertising bands, extending around the pairs of upper and lower rollersof bevel gear-wheels on the ends of the rollershafts and meshing witheach other; a longitudinally-movable shaft journaled near the bottom ofthe vehicle, a toothed wheel on each end of said shaft, and adapted tomesh one at a time with one of the gear-wheels on the lower-roller ends,a loose pulley and a fixed pulley on said shaft; anothertransmission-shaft arranged parallel to the longitudinally-movableshaft; a fixed pulley on the second transmission-shaft; a belt extendingaround said pulley and around the loose pulley above mentioned, saidbelt being adapted to be moved from the loose pulley upon the fixedpulley; a Worm on the last-mentioned shaft, a worin gear-wheel meshingwith said worm, a projecting pin on said gear-wheel,

and a fork for guiding the aforesaid belt and adapted to be engaged bysaid pin after each revolution of the worm gear-wheel, and means forbringing the fork back to its initial position, substantially as setforth.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with ahorizontal shaft, another longitudinally-movable.parallel shaft, a fixedpulley on the first shaft a fixed and a loose pulley on the secondshaft, and a belt extending around said pulley, of a threaded portion onthe first shaft, a worm gear-wheel meshing with said threaded portion,an upper projecting pin on the gear-wheel and adapted to move the saidbelt from the lixed pulley upon the loose pulley after each revolutionof said wheel and through suitable connec-tions, a lower projecting pinon the worm gear wheel, and a rotatable disk, havingperipherically-projeeting pins adapted to be engaged by said lowerprojecting pin, said disk being provided to operate at a given moment, aproper alarm device, and suitable connections between thefirst-mentioned shaft and the axle of a vehicle, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

LUDWIG NEUMAYER.

Witnesses:

RUDOLPH FRICKE, CHAs. J. BURT.

